The Iowa City Public Library’s annual Popo’s Puppet Festival will be held from noon to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 22, in Meeting Room A.

This year’s festival features three acts. Come for one performance or stay for all three!

First, join Parasol Puppets at noon for their performance of The Teeny Tiny Woman and Other Halloween Tales. This audience participation version of the old English folk tale features a teeny tiny woman who takes a teeny tiny walk and finds a teeny tiny bone. Suddenly, her teeny tiny house echoes with the cry of "Give me my bone!”

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An international expert and advocate on the importance of making cities walkable will deliver a public lecture in Iowa City.

Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time will speak Monday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m. at the Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City.

Speck is a city planner and urban designer who advocates for more sustainable cities. In his latest book, Walkable City, Speck writes that creating a walkable city is more than constructing sidewalk. Instead, the urban...

Due to the completion of the steam distribution system project at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Riverside Drive, the Westport Plaza bus route will resume normal inbound and outbound service using Burlington Street and Riverside Drive effective Wednesday, Oct.12, 2016.

The outbound bus stops located at Boyd Law School (stop 8000), Riverside Drive and Myrtle Avenue (stop 8002), Riverside Drive and Riverside Court (stop 8004), and the inbound bus stops located at Riverside Drive and Myrtle Avenue (stop 8003) and the University Hydraulics Lab (stop 8001) will all return to...

Iowa City will celebrate the installation of a new 40 space bicycle parklet with a community gathering that includes breakfast and giveaways, Friday morning.

The parklet is the first of its kind in downtown Iowa City and will go in near the corner of Washington and Dubuque Streets in the loading zone space next to US Bank.

To unveil and celebrate the new parklet, people are encouraged to bike downtown on Friday, Oct. 14 and stop by the parklet between 7:30 and 9 a.m. for complementary Molly’s Cupcakes pastries, Java House coffee and bike related giveaways. Those interested...